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![]() ![]() ![]() Its repercussions are already shaking the foundations not only of psychology but also of medicine, the legal system, child-rearing, meditation, and even airport security. ![]() This new theory means that you play a much greater role in your emotional life than you ever thought. Instead, she has shown that emotion is constructed in the moment, by core systems that interact across the whole brain, aided by a lifetime of learning. Her research overturns the widely held belief that emotions are housed in different parts of the brain and are universally expressed and recognized. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose theory of emotion is driving a deeper understanding of the mind and brain, and shedding new light on what it means to be human. Today, however, the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology-ans this paradigm shift has far-reaching implications for us all. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. ![]() A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind.Įmotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. ![]() ![]() Why shouldn't middle-aged mothers get a wish-fulfilment character, you sad little bigot? Everyone else does. ![]() I realised this as she was evolving on the page, and you know what? I fucking embrace it. You know what? Yeah, Zamira Drakasha, middle-aged pirate mother of two, is a wish-fulfilment fantasy. "First, I will pretend that your last sentence makes sense because it will save us all time," responded Lynch. It is unrealistic wish-fulfilment for you and your readers to have so many female pirates, especially if you want to be politically correct about it!" The reader wrote: "Real sea pirates could not be controlled by women, they were vicous rapists and murderers and I am sorry to say it was a man's world. Criticised by a reader for including characters who are "unrealistic stereotypes of political correctness" – the reader objected in particular to the character Zamira, a middle-aged pirate mother – Lynch went to town. ![]() Anyway, I'm rambling on about Lynch because I was reminded again how much I like him by a pointer from the (always excellent) MobyLives blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so, Brooks insists that Annie is a being whose adventures-localized though they may be-are worthy of close inspection, that the lessons therein telegraph truths about the entire universe. In both deference to and defiance of Latin conventions, Brooks casts her protagonist as a classical hero. Annie Allen’s centerpiece, “The Anniad,” consists of 43 stanzas of meandering text its title is a riff on Virgil’s The Aeneid. The collection traces the life of Annie, an “ordinary,” which is to say largely forgotten, black girl as she experiences the epic journey from childhood to the landmine-studded province of womanhood. Alexander’s preface, “Of the black & boisterous hair,” draws its title from Pulitzer Prize–winner Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen. Simpson’s images operate in concert with the texts that frequently share their plane-her art is a study in meticulous harmony.įrom its first pages, Lorna Simpson Collages sets forth the artist’s multidisciplinary lens. Simpson’s work is distinctive, the patterns of her photography and collages often immediately recognizable. She’s familiarized herself with the smoky allure of charcoal. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s used wigs as props, her own body as a subject. That Simpson would have a facility with integrating found images isn’t surprising while the artist gravitates toward photo-based mediums, she’s also painted, drawn, directed, and sculpted. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she specialized in library work with children. Cleary entered the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew.Īfter graduation from junior college in Ontario, California, and the University of California at Berkeley, Mrs. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. ![]() ![]() By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. ![]() Cleary attended grammar school and high school, she soon found herself in the low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers. When the family moved to Portland, where Mrs. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. ![]() ![]() Or before any more guests-or the agents themselves-end up dead. ![]() A storm is brewing, though, and Cooper and Park must rush to solve the case before the weather turns. But he’s always been anxious about the power dynamics in his relationship with Park, and participating in the couples’ activities at the retreat brings it all to the surface. With a long list of suspects and danger lurking around every cabin, Cooper should be focusing on the case. ![]() The resort is picturesque, the grounds are stunning and the staff members are all suspicious as hell. The agents will travel to the resort undercover…as a couple in need of counseling. With a former alpha werewolf missing, Cooper and Park are loaned to the BSI to conduct the search at a secluded mountain retreat. from Charlie Adhara and Carina Press The Big Bad Wolf Series The Wolf at the Door The Wolf at Bay Thrown to the Wolves Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Cry Wolf. He’s just not keen on working out the details. Living together in a forever home is exactly what Cooper wants. It means a temporary reprieve from tensions created by house hunting with Oliver Park, his partner both in work and in life. ![]() They do say the best cover story is one that’s close to the truth…Īgent Cooper Dayton is almost relieved to get a phone call from his former boss at the Bureau of Special Investigations. "The chemistry between these characters is downright palpable." -USA TODAY on The Wolf at the DoorĪgent Cooper Dayton and his partner, Oliver Park, are going undercover-at a retreat for couples who need counseling. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a Marshall Scholar, she received an MA in Science Fiction Studies at the University of Liverpool and an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at Cambridge. She received her PhD in English with an emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis in 2021. Katherine also studies and designs video games, including being on the design team for Foldit: First Contact, a new narrative version of the citizen science video game Foldit. It describes planetary world building, or speculative planetology, as a set of shared practices built up between planetary and climate scientists, creators of speculative fiction, engineers, and policymakers since the middle of the 20th century. On the dedication page for the 1965 sci-fi epic novel Dune, author Frank Herbert writes that this is for the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm. Set in the desert planet Arrakis, the first book follows Paul Atreides, a young man destined to be a messiah. ![]() At its core, the sci-fi epic is about ecology. Frank Herberts six-book Dune series has influenced the sci-fi genre for over 50 years, and all the Dune books ranked remains a list of some of the best science fiction books of all time. She is working on a book project, titled Speculative Planetology: Science, Culture, and the Building of Model Worlds. Frank Herbert’s novel isn’t just about space messiahs, giant sandworms, and trippy space drugs. ![]() Katherine Buse uses methods from science and technology studies, science fiction studies, and the environmental humanities to study how science shapes and is shaped by its cultural milieu. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it a review, discussion, article, show and tell? Use flair. Posting Topics Guides - Comprehensive 3.Self-Flair your post. Daily Day and date in title Click to see past SOTD posts.ġ.Read before Posting: Posting Rules, Rules of Engagement - Summary and Rediquette, or 2.Monthly Newcomer Fragrance Lounge (first week of the month).Every 2 weeks General Discussion (Fri.-Sunday).Monthly Share What You Bought - alternates with:.Weekly Show & Tell Weekend (Friday-Monday, GST-5). ![]() Every other day Recommend Me a Fragrance.R/fragrance is a user community free of promotions, transactions, marketing, influencer, data gathering, and affiliate content. Have a sense of humor, keep insults and hard sexual, otherwise abled and racist slurs out of the mix. Be respectful, inclusive, and don't cause needless drama. We discourage herd preference/behavior and fragrance influencers. We encourage exploration, independence, and informed discussion. Welcome to r/fragrance, the place to smell all the smells!We're a global, diverse, open community of adults that connect, discuss, share knowledge, experience and love of perfumes. ![]() ![]() Emanating from sources both within and close to the Imperial Family as well as from their captors and executioners, these often-controversial materials have enabled a new and comprehensive examination of one the pivotal events of the twentieth century and the many controversies that surround it.Based on a careful analysis of more than 500 of these previously unpublished documents, along with numerous newly discovered photos, "The Fate of the Romanovs" makes compelling revisions to many long-held beliefs about the Romanovs' final months and moments. ![]() The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden wealth of archival documents relating to the imprisonment and eventual murder of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children. Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, "Pride and Prejudice", at the age of 22. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. ![]() It includes a chronology, additional suggestions for further reading and the original "Penguin Classics" introduction by Tony Tanner. This edition is based on the first edition of 1814. "Mansfield Park" is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound. As her female cousins vie for Henry's attention, and even Edmund falls for Mary's dazzling charms, only Fanny remains doubtful about the Crawfords' influence and finds herself more isolated than ever. When her uncle Sir Thomas Birtram travels to Antigua, siblings Mary and Henry Crawford arrive in the neighbourhood, bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank, and with her cousin Edmund Bertram as her sole ally. ![]() A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". ![]() |